I have given him his second round of eye drops today and the eye is more open than it’s been in weeks. I looks like it’s on the mend. But there is a lot of water pooling in the bottom of the cage from the longer sprays. I’m going to fiddle with the sprayers and see if I can’t get more cage area...
Ok vet said to keep up antibiotics and gave RX for antibiotic drops for the eye as well as vitamin a drops. But she looked at him with goggles to see the eye up close and said it looks like a structural deformity at the front of the eye, like a moly but that didn’t come loose and is constricting...
Updated lights. Basking bulb on the left there and the 10.0 UVB in the long fixture. Updated the mister to 60sec every 6 hours (longest available spray interval on my machine) and vet appt at 2:30. Second dose of antibiotics is onboard and the mouth breathing has stopped but the eye seems...
Oh also would you have the new vet re-so the xrays tomorrow? I’d like to think bone density is something she’d get right either way and there’s no softening of the casque etc but given that she was so dumb I worry
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Ok thank you so much for your help. I’ll head out this afternoon for upgraded lighting fixtures. Do you use anything for heat at night? I worry he will get cold when I turn the lights out, which is why I had the ceramic but I see it’s not recommended.
Ok I’ll make adjustments. Can I ask a follow up? My misting schedule was based on the vets advice because she said the eye was likely due to dehydration and needing to maintain a more moist environment. I’m worried longer misting will result in pooling and still less moisture in the air can you...
Your Chameleon - Male, veiled in my care since mid-december. approximately 6 mo old
Handling - rarely. once a week or so?
Feeding - I feed 5-7 crickets in the mornings, dusted with calcium powder 6 days a week an multivitamin with D3 on Sundays. Crickets are gut loaded with flukers orange stuff...
Thought so. Sneaky Kappa. I rarely handle her...er him... because he gets so mad at me so I haven’t checked the feet since I first got him in December. *sigh*
I bought Kappa Chameleon at petsmart and they said they were a female only shop, so Kappa was definitely a female. But she’s pretty aggressive and she’s sleeping on the side of her cage tonight so I got a good look at her feet and I’m thinking she looks a lot like a he.
What do you think?